Kgotla, Magadi oppress women -UN

Botswana must table its report to the UN in February 2014.For the first time since the UN Convention was ratified 22 years ago, it was only last week that the Department of Gender at the Ministry of Youth Sport and Culture started consultations on the implementation of the UN convention, as the UN Committee put pressure on the government to report to the UN Assembly what the country is doing to fulfill articles of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

The UN’s Committee On the Elimination of Discrimination against Women is concerned that since Botswana ratified the convention in 1996, the government is yet to implement recommendations made specifically for the country to address discrimination against women and children here.